Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-09-19

d-d tnat morning Scooped the outfit.
OF course you have heard how the
Herald got the only report from the
baIl at Quebec, when the Prince OF
Wales was there to dance with the
fair ones of the Dominion? No:
Well. Frank tried to secure the line
from the operator, asking him to
name his price. The operator assur-
ed HIM that that line was run for the
public; but, sir he added, you can
have it as long as you use it
All right, said Frank. make me
that agreement in writing 1t was
done. Frank stationed his reporters
at the ball, and the first report came
down At nine o'clock. Send that,
said Frank, when it was done Now
telegraph this, and he commenced on
the first chapter of Genesis, and tele-
grphed more Bible into that Herald
Office that night than it had ever seen.
The parenthesis, however, had a
glowing account of the ball.
vas at Appomattox at the time
of tie surrender, and went with nv
brother. Capt. \. L. Trembly, then
an ordnance officer. now of the war
department. and three other officers
TO receive the cannon turned over to
Grant in Gen. Lees surrender. As
the officers rode out of camp the men
shouted Bound for Andersonville.
When they came TO the pickets the
guard said he knew nothing about it.
and would do nothing. Well. said
my brother, you must put US under
arrest and take US to your superior
officer, which he at last did.
The officer of the day professed to
know nothing about it. and he told
him to do the same that is, pass us
on to his superior officer. After more
than two hours delay we met in the
chief of ordnance man whom we had
seen during all this time sitting on a
log in plain sight, whom they had de
clared could not be found.
The officer said he would like to
make further inquiry, and asked that
business be postponed until the next
day. Our officers assured him their
orders were positive: that the busi- /
ness must be closed up that day. He !
then said. in a very surly manner, |
There they are, take them away; no
one will interfere with YOU
Capt. Trembly looked them over
carefully. There were sixty-two
runs and piles of ammunition. He
hen walked back and said to the Of
icer: You are the chief of ord
lance?
1 am.
Are these all The guns you have:'
They are all l know anything
bout.
If there were any more guns
Tould you know it,
1 would
Have you had daily reports on
rdnalce:'
/ have, even up to this morning.
Well, then, will you explain to me
ne reason that while on your last
larch your men abandoned their per-
0nal baggage, your hospital stores.
nd. in fact, all your army supplies,
on should have transported all that
a large portion of which
not of the kind and size to fit any |
these guns:' |
He replied testify, There they are e
all know anything Of c
The guns were recorded and ac- c
.pted, and detail of pioneers was '
III ttAN ~ SCdICu LllC NODuS anu St I
uded places for miles around. In
is search two six-gun batteries, all h
mplete and in working order, were u
und in ravine two or three miles I
ON the road. o
In another place six new-made d
ayes, with head-boards complete, b
re investigated; even a bayonet
lex in the soft earth showed the
rd substance near the surface.
ley proved to be six cannon .,
moved from their carriages and a,
erred with unusual respectability. II,
In short, from sixty-two the num- Q,
r was swelled to over one hundred 81
ces. 81
The southern confederacy was a if
nd to the last gasp" fin